Everybody needs somebody: Unequal parental effort in little penguins

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 837-845

  Saraux, Claire ^a,b,c   Chiaradia, André ^d   Le Maho, Yvon ^a,b   Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d Research Department   (Australia)

Author keywords

attendance patterns; individual quality; meal size; parental care; reproductive costs; seabirds

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; TRADE-OFF;

AVES; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 79959445350     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr049     Document Type: Article

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